STITCHING ON GLOVES
HOW IT ORIGINATED. When inquiry is made into common customs and practices it is sometimes found that they originate from quite small beginnings, and such is certainly the case with the three lines of stitching or embroidery which are found on the back of most gloves. It is believed that this design dates from a period when the methods of manufacturing gloves were far less perfect than they are today. While stitching the fingers, the needle was often carried down part of the way to the back of the .glove, and embroidery was added to cover up this fault. Nowadays glovemakers have no real need of embroidery, but the three lines of embroidery are usually still retained as an ornament.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 8
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123STITCHING ON GLOVES Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 8
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